So when you get into whisky there’s a lot of people who’ll immediately jump onto some sacred cow beliefs that are prevalent. Things like “never ever add anything to your whisky” which is dumb, because it’s your whisky. I may not like it with an ice cube or felched out of your partner’s nether region […]
Read More A Set of Compass Box ReviewsI like Bunnahabhain. But I don’t think I love Bunnahabhain. There’s a debate that comes up each time we have Bunna at a tasting: It’s good, but is it ever great? And there’re some of us who believe maybe, some who fall into never, and myself, a person in between. Of course, I’m a reviewer […]
Read More A bunch of BunnahabhainYeah, I’m a peat head. I’ve tried to deny it, I’ve tried to ignore it. It’s a cliche, right? Oh, Scotch drinker likes smoky, peaty whisky. The more peat smoke, the better. Nothing subtle there at all. Heck he even owns a bourbon that was finished in an ex-Ardbeg cask. Which leads us to Ardbeg. […]
Read More Ardbeg 19 / 22 / Supernova 2019 / Dark Cove CR / Blaaack CRCaol Ila is the powerhouse of the cell. Oh, wait. No, that’s not right at all. I mean, it’s not even the mitochondria either but they both get in good amounts of work. Caol Ila is the industrial hard worker of Islay. Based on that, you’d probably expect their releases to be peated, not much […]
Read More Cask-Strength Caol Ila: Some ReviewsI was interested in Scotch when I first went to Scotland. And kudos to the Scotch Whisky Experience. I went through it, they gave me the basics as a base for me to get wrong and be corrected and grow. For instance, they poured one from almost every Scotch region. Yes, almost. They talked about […]
Read More Multiple Campbeltown WhiskiesEach year we receive the Canadian equivalent of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, called the Northern Border collection from J.P. Wiser’s. Sadly this year I couldn’t go to the tasting that typically happens to try them. Luckily, as part of a tasting, there were two of the whiskies hanging out as open whiskies ready to […]
Read More Lot 40 Cask Strength Third Edition & Pike Creek 21 Oloroso FinishMy proclivities to specific distilleries are at odds with one of my whisky reviewing morals. There’s never going to be a distillery that I’ll turn down reviewing because there’s always going to be at least one whisky from them I’ll like. That said, I do get into times when I want a specific whisky. And […]
Read More 3 Ardmore ReviewsIt’ s no lie that I find something endearing about Bruichladdich, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. The company is such an underdog. It had issues, the casks were bad, and someone came along and through connections and money and a lot of gumption and probably more so money they re-racked the every-loving-hell […]
Read More Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, & Octomore: 10 ReviewsThe first time I had Linkwood it was chosen for me blind because my equally perverted partner thought it was funny to laugh about a certain Nintendo character getting a boner. Yeah, I lucked out on meeting someone amazing. Try not to be jealous. Since then I’ve had a few more, though it’s not the […]
Read More Three Linkwood ReviewsI’ve never been to Islay. There was some discussion of going this year, with friends, kinda stalled a bit, then was pushed off to another year, and then even the replacement plans have gotten a bit rough. I hope that someday when life has changed again, I can visit Isly for Feis Ile. Or around […]
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